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Sony ‘R’ US
The most shocking thing about the digital disemboweling of Sony Pictures’ computer data is that anyone would actually find it shocking. That goes for everything from the vulnerability of everyone’s...
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Walter Cronkite Awards: 2015 Winning Entries
Compelling storytelling, accuracy and service to citizens in election coverage were recognized by the 2015 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Television Political Journalism. The awards, given...
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Walter Cronkite Awards: 2013 Winning Entries
LOCAL BROADCAST STATION Click here to view the video on YouTube. KARE TV: Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN Click here to view the video on YouTube. WBNS 10TV: Columbus, OH LOCAL CABLE STATION Click here to...
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Walter Cronkite Awards: 2011 Winning Entries
LOCAL BROADCAST STATION Click here to view the video on YouTube. KOMO 4 TV: Seattle WA Click here to view the video on YouTube. KION/KCBA Central Coast News: Salinas, CA LOCAL CABLE STATION Click here...
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Walter Cronkite Awards: Watch the Symposia
Learn How to Make Great Political Television from Winners of the Walter Cronkite Award One of the remarkable components of the Cronkite Awards is the symposium all winners are invited to attend before...
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In 2007, Lear Center director Marty Kaplan moderated the symposium with Cronkite Award winners. The post 2007 Walter Cronkite Award Symposium appeared first on The Norman Lear Center.
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Walter Cronkite Awards: Tools for Reporters
Best Practices & Tools for Reporters TIP SHEETS How to Improve Television Political Coverage 2008 Covering Debates: Bringing community voices to debates. Getting candidates beyond rehearsed...
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Walter Cronkite Awards: Screeners & Judges
2015 Judges Willow Bay, Chair: Director, USC Annenberg School of Journalism Serena Cha: Professor of Professional Practice; Director of Annenberg TV News Susan Friedman: Veteran television news...
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Walter Cronkite Awards
The Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Television Political Journalism encourages and showcases substantive and innovative coverage that informs viewers about their electoral choices. Click here...
View ArticleThe Double XX Files: Health and Justice for Women in Film & TV (Highlights)
Hollywood, Health & Society, the CDC and the Writers Guild of America, East presented a panel on the topics of health and justice for women on Friday, April 17 at the WGAE in New York. “The Double...
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For Mother’s Day, a lesson on postpartum depression from some new TV moms
The image of motherhood on TV is changing. And I’m not talking about the June Cleaver ideal. That is dead and buried, thank goodness. I’m referring to the latest trend in scripted television to portray...
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Norman Lear at the ATX Television Festival in Austin: “…even though I’m a professional in the field, I’m an audience member first. My experience is the same at 93 that it was when I was a kid.” Read...
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There’s so much good TV now. How can you watch everything you want to? Here’s how one guy does it: he watches his favorite shows on his computer at TWICE the normal speed, probably by himself.The post...
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Hollywood, Health & Society: HIV/AIDS Roundtable at L.A. LGBT Center
Hollywood, Health & Society presented this roundtable on the status of HIV/AIDS in the media that brought together TV writers, HIV experts, storytellers and members of the creative team from ABC’s...
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Did OJ Change Anything?
Twenty-plus years later and the O.J. Simpson murder case continues to shock and fascinate us. As if you didn’t think there was anything more to learn, a pairing of television offerings this year retold...
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Marty Kaplan, quoted in the NYTimes on the renewed solace of TV for liberals: “We all gather around that hearth to know what’s going on out there, and be comforted by the people who come on our screens...
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Setting the Story Straight: Rewriting the Narrative on Immigrants in Television
The Writers Guild Foundation, in partnership with Define American and The Hollywood Reporter, hosts this discussion featuring writers and actors on how immigrants in America are depicted on...
View ArticleImmigration Nation: Exploring Immigrant Portrayals on Television
This report presents a media content analysis conducted by the Lear Center’s Media Impact Project in collaboration with Define American, a nonprofit media and culture organization, to investigate two...
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2019 Sentinel Awards Call for Entries
Hollywood, Health & Society announces a call for entries for the 2019 Sentinel Awards, which recognize outstanding achievements in television storylines that inform, educate and motivate viewers to...
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